{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2008/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2008/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1161",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-for-human-use-prescribing-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2008",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008 and shall come into force on 4th June 2008.\n(2) In this Order —\n“the POM Order” means the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997; and\n“the Pharmacy and General Sale Order” means the Medicines (Pharmacy and General Sale—Exemption) Order 1980.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1830; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2002/549, 2003/696, 2005/765 and 848, 2006/915 and 2807 and 2008/464."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1980/1924; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2000/1919, 2004/1, 2005/1507 and 2006/915."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1161/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:31:35.744804+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}